The Entrepreneurial MBA from Southern New Hampshire University is a 39-credit-hour program conveniently offered online and on location. By combining entrepreneurship courses with traditional MBA courses, you gain a unique perspective on evaluating risk and capitalizing on business opportunities.

The Entrepreneurial MBA program is taught by business professionals with specialized experience in their given disciplines. Many are adjunct instructors who currently practice their trades full time on a daily basis and are able to offer timely insight into entrepreneurial ventures.

Accelerate Your Entrepreneurial MBA Degree

You have the option of taking courses full time or part-time beginning at the start of any of the four 10-week sessions throughout the year. You are not required to take the GMAT or GRE for this program. If your goal is to graduate quickly, you can earn your entrepreneurial MBA in just 15 months by enrolling full time.

Entrepreneurship MBA

OL-630: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

This course is a study of entrepreneurship and small businesses from a management standpoint and includes the analysis of research, marketing, taxes, forms of business, capital and venture capital opportunities. Students complete a real- world project or Small Business Institute consultancy.

OL-635: Consulting

Students examine consulting, from defining what a consultant is to analyzing the problems and expenses involved in starting a consulting business. Topics include promotion, establishment of a client list, computers that support consulting and contracts.

OL-640: Franchising

Topics include research, analysis, evaluation, financing and legal requirements of existing and potential franchises. Also included are methodologies of the franchise agreement, the operating manual, the Uniform Franchise Offering Circular (UFOC), and research and marketing theory and practice. Students prepare a research paper based on a real or proposed franchise. The course also examines international franchising. Background preparation: 3 credit hours in marketing and business law or the equivalent.

Core Courses

The 10-course online MBA core was developed to help students succeed in today's competitive and diverse business environment. It focuses on providing the functional skill set and broad knowledge base to help you develop practical business strategies and make you a more effective leader.

ACC-500: Managerial Accounting

Students in this course study the accumulation of accounting information. The internal use of accounting for management planning, control and decision-making is emphasized. Background preparation: 6 credit hours of accounting or equivalent. Note: ACC 500 cannot be taken for credit or as an elective if ACC 510 has been completed.

Prerequisites:

MBA-503

ECO-500: Managerial Economics

Managerial economics involves applying economic theory and using the tools of decision science to examine how an organization can achieve its objectives most efficiently in the face of constraints. Background preparation: 6 credit hours in mathematics and 3 credit hours in microeconomics, macroeconomics and statistics or equivalent.

Prerequisites:

QSO-510, MBA-501 and MBA-502

FIN-500: Financial Management

This course is a study of financial decision- making in a firm, including its relationship to financial markets and institutions. Background preparation: 6 credit hours in economics.

Prerequisites:

ACC-500, ACC-510 or ACC-550 and MBA-502

INT-610: Multinational Corporate Environment

This course is a survey of economic, social and political relationships among and within nations, and their impacts upon corporations that operate in an international context.

IT-500: Information Technology

This course focuses on the many ways information technology is incorporated within contemporary organizations and used to achieve a competitive advantage in the national and international marketplace. The interrelationships between information technology, management and organizations are emphasized. Management of the system development process and the tools and methods used to produce quality information systems also are studied. Background preparation: 3 credit hours in information technology or equivalent. IT 500 cannot be taken for credit or as an elective if IT 510 has been completed.

MBA-700: Strategic Management

This course includes the application of learned skills and the testing, distillation and integration of insights gained from previous courses and other sources.

Prerequisites:

FIN-500, OL-500, QSO-510 and IT-500

MKT-500: Marketing Strategies

This course is a study of the activity by which organizations discover consumer and other organizations' needs and wants, and then provide satisfaction through a mutually beneficial relationship. Students will explore the topics of selecting a target market, conducting marketing research, and designing product, price, promotional, and distribution strategies through the development of a marketing plan.

OL-690: Responsible Corporate Leadership

Students investigate the nature of the environments in which business enterprises conduct their operations in order to determine the actual and desirable levels of attentiveness and responsiveness of business managers to the relationship between the enterprise and society.

QSO-510: Quantitative Analysis for Decision Making

This is a survey of the mathematical, probabilistic and statistical tools available for assisting in the operation and management of industrial organizations. Background preparation: 6 credit hours in mathematics and 3 credit hours in statistics, or the equivalent.

Prerequisites:

MBA-501

QSO-600: Operations Management

This is a study of the concepts of production and operations and of a variety of methods and techniques used in their management. Background preparation: 6 credit hours in economics.

Prerequisites:

QSO-510

Foundation Courses

Some students may be required to take foundation courses as prerequisite work for some of the more advanced online MBA material. Students with business related undergraduate degrees are typically exempt from most foundation courses. In most cases, students choosing the elective track are able to apply the credit hours from their foundation courses against the elective requirements.

Contact an Admission Advisor at mba@snhu.edu or 888.387.0861 for more information.

MBA-501: Mathematics and Statistics for Business

This is an applied course, which will provide students with the mathematical knowledge and skills that underlie many courses offered in the school of business. Students will learn the fundamental concepts and methods of linear algebra, mathematical functions, differential calculus and statistics and their applications to business. They will also sharpen their quantitative, analytical and problem-solving skills that are so important for success in the world of business today.

MBA-502: Economics for Business

This course is intended to provide the student with a concisely focused yet rigorous introduction to both micro- and macroeconomic theory needed at the foundational level of a graduate degree program. Some of the topics to be addressed include: market behavior; demand theory and related elasticity concepts; production and cost theory; managerial decision-making in perfectly competitive and imperfectly competitive markets; GDP determination; unemployment and inflation; and fiscal and monetary policy.

Prerequisites:

MBA-501

MBA-503: Financial Reporting and Analysis

This course is designed to help future business leaders across all functional areas appreciate and understand the rules and regulations, processes and procedures, and significance of financial accounting statements and reports. It provides a balanced presentation between how statements are prepared and, more importantly, how to analyze these statements and footnotes to assess a company's performance within the industry and management's performance within a particular company. New government regulations have made the integrity and quality of financial accounting information everyone's responsibility. This course will help future business leaders conduct better internal audits, improve forecasts and valuations, and make better management decisions.

MBA-610: Business Law

This course focuses on the theory and application of business regulations and the laws of contracts, agency, property and business organizations. Background preparation: 3 credit hours in business law or the equivalent.

OL-500: Human Behavior in Organizations

This course is a study of individuals and groups and their interaction. Students examine theories of motivation, communication, leadership, power and change with practical relation to contemporary issues. They also study organizations for key design variables and reward systems aimed at improved performance and organizational efficiency through employee motivational programs, participative management and cooperative decision making.